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		<title>Devolution passed!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s over. Devolution passed. Now Stormont has control over all of it&#8217;s own affairs, and the terrorists can go home.
For those of you out there that don&#8217;t know, ever since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, they have been trying to transfer power from London to Belfast in a process know as devolution.
The main issues [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s over. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8558763.stm">Devolution passed</a>. Now Stormont has control over all of it&#8217;s own affairs, and the terrorists can go home.</p>
<p>For those of you out there that don&#8217;t know, ever since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement">Good Friday Agreement</a> of 1998, they have been trying to transfer power from London to Belfast in a process know as devolution.</p>
<p>The main issues have been:</p>
<p>1. The dismantling of the paramilitary (terrorist) groups in Northern Ireland.<br />
2. The removal of the British Army and it&#8217;s bases.<br />
3. Establishment of Power Sharing between the main political parties.<br />
4. The devolution of policing and other services.</p>
<p>There are more issues than that, but those are the main ones.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army#End_of_the_armed_campaign">The paramilitaries have disarmed</a> (mostly).</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Banner#End">The army are gone</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_ireland#Government_and_politics">Power sharing is here</a>.</p>
<p>And as linked above, the police are devolving.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no point fighting any more on the part of the terrorists. All you&#8217;ll be doing is killing other Northerners. You can plant bombs, shoot cops, whatever it is you want to do&#8230; but there&#8217;s no point.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re not fighting for Britain or Ireland any more.</p>
<p>All you&#8217;re doing is blowing up your own people. Which is fairness, is what you&#8217;ve been doing this whole time.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s over. There are years of healing to go yet. I give it two generations before no one gives a shit any more.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s over lads. It&#8217;s over.</p>
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